Post here what you are currently working on as a musician. Just finished recording the drums for the new song? Experimenting with unconventional scales? Did it go as you wanted or did it fail badly?

Yesterday I began to decrypt those nasty Gorguts songs, starting from Obscura. I got the first two riffs down. They are in natural F minor, minor second and major sixth against the tonic appear couple of times but otherwise they're quite strictly in the key. The harmonization is what makes the music sound the way it sounds. You couldn't know how much dissonance lies within a such tame sounding scale if you didn't know how to harness it. These are the harmonized scale degrees in the opening riff, there are no chords so this isn't really a chord progression. Voice leading is a more suitable term.

Iflat VIIVIIflat VIIIVVflat III

Second thing I observed is that the harmony spreads out a lot. Once you invert the dyads and collapse the riffs down you'll be like "Oh I found some minor triads" The tapping lead and the monster riff are a whole new thing to tackle. I already know the latter utilizes quartal harmony but chromatic leads with a backing riff like the one in the song are crazy.

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NecroFile wrote:

Lars Ulrich used to post under the name Anal_Gladiator but then he got banned. Dude, if you break the rules you get kicked off the forum. We don't care how many Grammies you have.

Well that Gorguts song must be a tough job to tackle haha. I'm currently working on improvising on the jazz/blues form, learning every chord and arpegio to use that form in the F key. This is very complicated since you change chords on every measure and there are some measures where you have two chords. But well since I study music almost everything I do is related to music

Asides from my studies, tomorrow will be my first proper recording, if everything goes well. I will be recording with some other musicians from my university, it's a project one of them did so we will be recording his music, in the university's studio I think these are the most important things for now

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ld50 wrote:

Sunn is straight out da hood. I listen to White 1 when I'm cooking up some eight balls.

also, not really musicianship but related, recording another EP for this GREAT powerviolence band from holland next week.
This will be the second time I'll be recording them
http://www.myspace.com/axsxhxgrind

My band is releasing a remix ep to go along with a new music video, so right now I’m working on that. Going to do one dub remix and one ambient.

I’ve also been working on some new patches for one of my older synths- a Korg DS-8. It’s a quirky FM synth produced in the early 80s. Its presets are utter crap and editing is fairly tedious, but with a bit of patience and love I’ve coaxed some unexpectedly rich and unique tones out of it. Unfortunately it’s a bit temperamental, so I can’t rely on it as part of my live rig, but it’s nice to have in the studio.

Currently recording drums for my new full length album that's coming out in a while. Also, writing various other tracks for multiple splits I'm participating in (with Foreskin and ABSOLUTETERROR, for those of you who know MegaHassan/WetPussy and fetalfeast).

Improving classical keyboard techniques, through piano books.
Improving sound synthesis techniques, by reading on internet and experiment it on sof synth.
Studying a book in audio engineering, to have better and better mixing techniques.
Edit: But, with a person like me it'll be impossible to do all of this with studying, cuz I have nothing to do with organizing time.

I'm working on everything. Mainly speed and endurance, which have been coming slowly but surely. Creativity is another big thing, everything I play is kind of like "cool, but it's been done" kinda stuff.

Joined a thrash band a while ago, and hopefully will join a friend's death metal act soon.

I just wrote a song with my friend. Sounds something like the Pixies/Sonic Youth. He used his acoustic guitar and added distortion sounded really sweet. I've been dabbling in atmospheric music and strange tunings like

B G B F B flat D
which is weird I want to use Ostrich tuning as well sounds crazy.

I'm also playing bass in a hardcore punk band similar to Negative Approach. Our third practice is tomorrow and we are looking really good so far.

Currently I'm writing the final song for my EP "Hope Bleeds Eternal" which has been in the works forever. I'm also working on the first EP (I consider my first album a demo) for The Fall of the Heretic.

Promoting my second album, which you can hear at the link in my signature, recording a record with an indie rock band, writing music and lyrics for my future releases, practicing with my school based band, working on my rudiments and hand technique, expanding my jazz independence, etc.

I just wrote a song with my friend. Sounds something like the Pixies/Sonic Youth. He used his acoustic guitar and added distortion sounded really sweet. I've been dabbling in atmospheric music and strange tunings like

B G B F B flat D which is weird I want to use Ostrich tuning as well sounds crazy.

I once tuned my guitar in fifths, like a violin. The highest strings were not in fifths though, because they would snap if I tried to tune them like that. They weren't in fourths either. Anyway, it was so complicated I stopped doing so. I know King Crimson used this tuning occasionally.

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NecroFile wrote:

Lars Ulrich used to post under the name Anal_Gladiator but then he got banned. Dude, if you break the rules you get kicked off the forum. We don't care how many Grammies you have.

At last I managed to adjust the sound on my recorder Micro Br so that I am satisfy with it. Now I am going to record guitar tracks (drum and bass lines are already done) of songs which I have chosen for the first Bequest's demo.

Just got my custom built guitar intoned. I love this thing more than anything in the world!

trying to resurect my current band, joining a technical hardcore band on bass, starting two death metal( althought one looks liek it's gonna turn out to be death core judging by the members we got) and one alternative like 90's style group. So yeah, 5 open projects at the moment!

sent some tapes off for review. about to record a couple tracks for a comp and writing a couple more jams before we record everything for a 7" and various other bullshit. booking a bunch of shows... it never ends.

lately i've been taking a lot of influence from bands like meshuggah, confessor, and demilich, and just having fun incorporating weird shit into my playing. i just spent like half an hour playing just one riff, experimenting with shit until it sounded perfect, then playing the fuck out of it until it was in my muscle memory

i've been trying to write songs, but i'm too scatterbrained for that so i just get a bunch of riffs that go with each other. maybe i should just make a song out of them.

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Band i play in (Among the Demons) just finished recording our demo and have been playing as many local shows as we can sink our teeth into. Also, started a more power/heavy metal band that for now is just cover tunes but been working on writing a couple songs.

Writing material for a tech thrash album I hope to release one day. Currently 2 out of around 11 songs are done. I am working on the closing 10+ minute track. It's been very difficult chaining the riffs together so they flow well. It's about 60% done, I suppose.

All those people telling they're writing stuff for their band makes me jealous. I wish I was in one.

Anyway, I'm learning Virgin Steele's ''The burning of Rome (Cry for Pompeli)''. It's a cool song; quite easy riffing and has a cool guitar solo which is easier than I expected. I'm expecting to this nail this song within a week or 2.

All those people telling they're writing stuff for their band makes me jealous. I wish I was in one.

you can start as one man band you know

I'm just 17. Writing my own songs now would be hard. Right now I'm just looking for some people to play with. All the serious business will happend later.

I'm a little younger, yo. Just start out by making simple songs and once you've gotten the hang of things you can experiment a little more and make better music. Also, don't start songs, work on them and then never complete them. It's better to have a few okay, but finished songs than none at all. Also, I do stuff primarily by myself, but I have had a few friends contribute vocals and some guitar. If you don't have the resources to have a certain instrument or something, substitute and come back. I tap on shit with a ruler for drums and it actually sounds okay, considering it's black metal. Good luck!

All those people telling they're writing stuff for their band makes me jealous. I wish I was in one.

you can start as one man band you know

I'm just 17. Writing my own songs now would be hard. Right now I'm just looking for some people to play with. All the serious business will happend later.

I'm 18 and not in a band, and I still write some stuff. It figure that if I start writing now I'll have some material to already start working with if/when I join a band.

Do you write your own songs or just the riffs for a song? I write a riff once in a while but that's it basically. For now, I rather focus on songs I should learn to play on my audition. I might sign up for a musicschool, but am not too sure about it.

All those people telling they're writing stuff for their band makes me jealous. I wish I was in one.

you can start as one man band you know

I'm just 17. Writing my own songs now would be hard. Right now I'm just looking for some people to play with. All the serious business will happend later.

I'm 18 and not in a band, and I still write some stuff. It figure that if I start writing now I'll have some material to already start working with if/when I join a band.

Do you write your own songs or just the riffs for a song? I write a riff once in a while but that's it basically. For now, I rather focus on songs I should learn to play on my audition. I might sign up for a musicschool, but am not too sure about it.

I write a bunch of riffs and then I'll jam out for awhile and if I play anything that sounds good with one of the riffs I'd previously written I experiment with some ideas of stuff that would go good with them.
I'm also 17 never recorded anything though due to lack of good equipment.

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Lich_King wrote:

Their are better bands? Where's they're stuff? I need to see if there any good!